However, Zayd divorced Zaynab and their marriage lasted just over a year.

Since Zaynab was the wife of Muhammad's adopted son, pre-Islamic practices frowned upon such her marriage with the prophet.

The marriage was a failure as Zaynab found it extremely difficult to accept a freed slave as her husband.

As for Zaynab, however, she became ill and died eight months after her marriage.

During this skirmish, Medinan dissidents, begrudging Muhammad's influence, attempted to attack him in the more sensitive areas of his life, including his marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh, and an incident in which Aisha left her camp to search her lost necklace, and returned with a Companion of Muhammad.

Zaynab disapproved of the marriage and her brothers rejected it, because according to Ibn Sa'd, she was of aristocratic lineage and Zayd was a former slave and the adopted son of Muhammad.

Six months after the couple began living in a rented Tehran apartment, Abdullah phoned his father-in-law to report that Zaynab was inconsolable at being separated from her family, and the marriage was not working out.

When the Prophet Muhammad went to the house of Zaynab bint Jahsh to ask her hand for his adopted son, the family was shocked as they were excepting Muhammad to marry Zaynab bint Jahsh who also was his cousin, however the marriage took place but did not last long due to the lack of understanding between the couple and later Zayd divorced her.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

Agrippina did this hoping to secure a marriage between Octavia and her son.

This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

The Duchess converted to Roman Catholicism on 14 January 1994, but her husband did not lose his place in the succession, as the Duchess had been an Anglican at the time of their marriage.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

As another example, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1877, held that a Michigan statute that established rules for solemnization of marriages did not abolish pre-existing common-law marriage, because the statute did not affirmatively require statutory solemnization and was silent as to preexisting common law.

Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).

Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in 1723, whom he did not marry until 1731.

Talmage's work did not contain the section on plural marriage.

When this marriage unraveled, Comden complained that Day cared more for her " animal friends " than she did for him.

Pope Eugenius III did not, as Eleanor had hoped, grant an annulment ; instead, he attempted to reconcile Eleanor and Louis, confirming the legality of their marriage, and proclaiming that no word could be spoken against it, and that it might not be dissolved under any pretext.

Protracted negotiations to arrange a match between his daughter Elizabeth and the Earl of Southhampton did not result in marriage ; in 19 November 1594, six weeks after Southampton turned 21, ' the young Earl of Southampton, refusing the Lady Vere, payeth £ 5000 of present money '.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

They did begin dating after Brooks's divorce, and married on December 10, 2005, at their home in Oklahoma, marking the second marriage for Brooks and the third for Yearwood.

" However, Catherine insisted that she and Arthur had never consummated their brief marriage and that the prohibition did not apply here.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

If intercourse did take place, then the sponsalia de futuro “ was automatically converted into de iure marriage ”.

Caesar continued his relationship with Cleopatra throughout his last marriage, which lasted fourteen years – in Roman eyes, this did not constitute adultery – and may have fathered a son called Caesarion.

The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.

" A decade later, the 1836 Marriage Act, which introduced civil marriage, was contemptuously referred to as the ‘ Broomstick Marriage Act ’ by those who felt that a marriage outside the Anglican church did not deserve legal recognition.

The new marriage not only re-established ties to senatorial opposition, but also served the broader Flavian propaganda of the time, which sought to diminish Vespasian's political success under Nero.

Adultery can cause an individual to be disowned by the family, hurt the marriage value of his / her family, lose money or a job, and diminish future reproductive potential.

The new marriage rehabilitated Corbulo's family, while serving the broader Flavian propaganda of the time, which sought to diminish Vespasian's political success under the less reputable emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

She believes one of the purposes of marriage is always procreation and rearing children exclusively by heterosexual parents, and alleges that same-sex unions diminish the value of heterosexual marriages.

The marriage of Zainab did not diminish her strong attachment to her family.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

But if she were just having a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten her out of a really good marriage.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

But before she left her room she dug into her big moire bag, took out the envelope holding her marriage contract and the wax seal had been broken.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

The bride's brother, Walter D. Monroe Jr., will give her in marriage.

Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.